what 11 o'clock pm can bring around....

It took a conversation with one of best friends last night for me to develop this idea fully, and it's a hard thing to address.  While this is becoming my family's reality not by choice, my friend faces this decision with choices.  He knows what he wants but feels pulled by the people around him, especially his mom.  He faces his first challenge in his relationship with his mom, does he follow where he feels God is leading, or does he do what his mother desires him to?

While he realizes what he wants will not lead to a luxurious life, he still feels led in that way.  But his mother, out of maybe fear, feels that he should pursue a life with more income.  So at what point do you decide that you have to defy your parents and follow God?  Doesn't the Bible say to honor your parents?  This is the problem he faces, and this is what I came up with.

If you aren't where God wants you, you WON'T be happy.  My family has seen this first hand, the misery that can accompany not following God's will is not a happy place to be.  You won't even be able to enjoy the money, OR the life if you aren't where you were meant to be.  Glorious free will right?  While this doesn't mean don't obey your parents, it does mean that you need to follow God more then people.  Your parents know you best and want the best for you, but you can listen to their concerns and consider them and still decide you must be somewhere else.  That is still a form of honoring them. 

I wish my friend luck in his first decision as an adult and I am praying for him.  I know that he will do what is right, that's who he is.  But it won't be easy for him.